Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The volume of applications for the state’s new universal private school voucher program already outnumbers the total scholarships available. Within hours of the launch of the Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarship program on May 15, the state received over 33,000 applications, according to a joint press release from Gov. Bill Lee and the state education department.